Lexus is500
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Besides, the IS500 is great because of this simplicity. It’s literally just an IS with a V8. That’s it. No huge chassis upgrade, no expensive carbon-ceramic brakes, no high-performance wheel-and-tire combo. Just a regular ol’ IS sedan with a 5.0-liter V8 making 472 hp and 395 lb-ft of torque. Lexus is500 f sport For the most part, my feelings about the IS 500 mirror those of the IS 350. It’s a comfortable sedan that won’t beat you up if the roads aren’t perfect. The cabin is nice, albeit a bit dated and cramped. Mercifully, the IS 500 has no intrusion in the driver’s footwell from an all-wheel drive transfer case, given it only drives the rear wheels.
2022 is500
Automotive Performance + Tech Magazine 2022 Lexus IS 500 F Sport First Drive Review: F Around And Find Out Car and Driver, February/March 2023 Issue
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The steering has good weight, a fix over the pre-2021 refresh IS models I tested that were overboosted and floaty. But I found it’s desperately light on feedback. I longed for some sense of how the front wheels were behaving through turns, and that made me dial back the pace on curvy roads. It was simply too hard to be confident at the pace I wanted to drive. Every time I’d let that get me down the V-8 would roar to life on corner exit and for a blissful second I’d turn forgetful. On the Road Varnish cache server
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Steering is precise, though feedback is muted through this electrically assisted system. If this IS were tuned to be more extreme, one could argue for a quicker steering rack, but given that this is tuned for the road, it’s perfectly suited to this sedan with the right amount of heft and responsiveness. Post navigation The dynograph for the 2022 Lexus IS 500 F SPORT Performance is fairly smooth and linear with a slight dip around 5,000 rpm before continuing upward. The 5.0-liter naturally-aspirated V8 ultimately delivered 382.73 horsepower to the wheels at 6,400 RPM. That’s about 450bhp, over 20 more bhp than rated.